7 held over on­line child pornog­ra­phy

Span­ish po­lice said they had ar­rested seven peo­ple, in­clud­ing a Bri­tish teacher who lived in Barcelona, for shar­ing thou­sands of im­ages and videos of child pornog­ra­phy on­line. The in­ves­ti­ga­tion kicked off last year when po­lice re­ceived information that the il­licit con­tent was cir­cu­lat­ing on var­i­ous in­ter­net plat­forms. The probe was sub­se­quently given a ma­jor boost when a spe­cialised firm came for­ward with a dam­aged hard-drive that a cus­tomer had given them to re­trieve files, in which they found more than 27,500 photos of child abuse. – AFP